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Computer Resources for People with Disabilities

A resource for people with disabilities who want to improve their lives through the use of technology.

Computer Models for Facial Beauty Analysis

This book covers the key advances in computerized facial beauty analysis, with an emphasis on data-driven research and the results of quantitative experiments. It takes a big step toward practical facial beauty analysis, proposes more reliable and stable facial features for beauty analysis and designs new models, methods, algorithms and schemes while implementing a facial beauty analysis and beautification system. This book also tests some previous putative rules and models for facial beauty analysis by using computationally efficient mathematical models and algorithms, especially large scale database-based and repeatable experiments. The first section of this book provides an overview of facial beauty analysis. The base of facial beauty analysis, i. e. , facial beauty features, is presented in part two. Part three describes hypotheses on facial beauty, while part four defines data-driven facial beauty analysis models. This book concludes with the authors explaining how to implement their new facial beauty analysis system. This book is designed for researchers, professionals and post graduate students working in the field of facial beauty analysis, computer vision, human-machine interface, pattern recognition and biometrics. Those involved in interdisciplinary fields with also find the contents useful. The ideas, means and conclusions for beauty analysis are valuable for researchers and the system design and implementation can be used as models for practitioners and engineers.

The Computer-based Patient Record (Revised Edition)

Most industries have plunged into data automation, but health care organizations have lagged in moving patients' medical records from paper to computers. In its first edition, this book presented a blueprint for introducing the computer-based patient record (CPR). The revised edition adds new information to the original book. One section describes recent developments, including the creation of a computer-based patient record institute. An international chapter highlights what is new in this still-emerging technology. An expert committee explores the potential of machine-readable CPRs to improve diagnostic and care decisions, provide a database for policymaking, and much more, addressing these key questions: Who uses patient records? What technology is available and what further research is necessary to meet users' needs? What should government, medical organizations, and others do to make the transition to CPRs? The volume also explores such issues as privacy and confidentiality, costs, the need for training, legal barriers to CPRs, and other key topics.

Computational Intelligence in Healthcare: Applications, Challenges, and Management (Innovations in Intelligent Internet of Everything (IoE))

Computational intelligence (CI) refers to the ability of computers to accomplish tasks that are normally completed by intelligent beings such as humans and animals. Artificial intelligent systems offer great improvement in healthcare systems by providing more intelligent and convenient solutions and services assisted by machine learning, wireless communications, data analytics, cognitive computing, and mobile computing. Modern health treatments are faced with the challenge of acquiring, analysing, and applying the large amount of knowledge necessary to solve complex problems. AI techniques are being effectively used in the field of healthcare systems by extracting the useful information from the vast amounts of data by applying human expertise and CI methods, such as fuzzy models, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and probabilistic methods which have recently emerged as promising tools for the development and application of intelligent systems in healthcare practice. This book starts with the fundamentals of computer intelligence and the techniques and procedures associated with them. Contained in the book are state-of-the-art CI methods and other allied techniques used in healthcare systems as well as advances in different CI methods that confront the problem of effective data analysis and storage faced by healthcare institutions. The objective of this book is to provide the latest research related to the healthcare sector to researchers and engineers with a platform encompassing state-of-the-art innovations, research and design, and the implementation of methodologies.

Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines (Atlantis Thinking Machines #7)

Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence in their own right all are flourishing research disciplines producing surprising and captivating results that continuously influence and change our view on where the limits of intelligent machines lie, each day pushing the boundaries a bit further. By 2014, all three fields also have left their marks on everyday life - machine-composed music has been performed in concert halls, automated theorem provers are accepted tools in enterprises' R&D departments, and cognitive architectures are being integrated in pilot assistance systems for next generation airplanes. Still, although the corresponding aims and goals are clearly similar (as are the common methods and approaches), the developments in each of these areas have happened mostly individually within the respective community and without closer relationships to the goings-on in the other two disciplines. In order to overcome this gap and to provide a common platform for interaction and exchange between the different directions, the International Workshops on "Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence" (C3GI) have been started. At ECAI-2012 and IJCAI-2013, the first and second edition of C3GI each gathered researchers from all three fields, presenting recent developments and results from their research and in dialogue and joint debates bridging the disciplinary boundaries. The chapters contained in this book are based on expanded versions of accepted contributions to the workshops and additional selected contributions by renowned researchers in the relevant fields. Individually, they give an account of the state-of-the-art in their respective area, discussing both, theoretical approaches as well as implemented systems. When taken together and looked at from an integrative perspective, the book in its totality offers a starting point for a (re)integration of Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence, making visible common lines of work and theoretical underpinnings, and pointing at chances and opportunities arising from the interplay of the three fields.

Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession

In this book, we meet a man who can't let anyone get within a certain distance of his nose, two kleptomaniacs from very different walks of life, an Internet addict who chooses virtual life over real life, a professor with a dangerous gambling habit, and others with equally debilitating compulsive conditions. Elias Aboujaoude tells stories inspired by memorable patients he has treated, taking us from initial contact through the stages of the doctor-patient relationship.

Comprensión de la Cetosis. Su Guía Definitiva para Vivir el Estilo Keto

APRENDA CÓMO COMER SALUDABLE, PERDER PESO Y PERMANECER EN CETOSIS. Independientemente de las razones por las que esté siguiendo la dieta cetogénica, empezar nunca es tan fácil como podría pensar. La dieta cetogénica está emergiendo como una de las dietas más populares para la salud y pérdida de peso. Ninguna otra dieta tiene los mismos tremendos beneficios para asuntos de salud, desde el cáncer a la obesidad y de enfermedad de Alzheimer a la diabetes tipo 2 por no mencionar sus efectos positivos en el desempeño atlético. En Comprensión de la Cetosis, Gretchen Ramos ofrece una mirada comprensiva a todo lo que usted siempre quiso saber sobre las dietas cetogénicas. Su enfoque está basado en investigación científica, su testimonio personal sobre cómo perdió perso de las 220 libras a una talla delgada en sólo dos meses. No ha trabajado en el campo médico por veinte años, ha ayudado exitosamente a las personas a estar en cetosis. Las preocupaciones comunes, preguntas, tips prácticos y consejos para seguir la dieta Keto han sido plasmados en este libro. A continuación una vista previa del libro: Qué comer en la dieta cetogénica Formas de Determinar su Fórmula Personal de Keto Pasos Prácticos para empezar con la dieta cetogénica Qué tipo de carbohidratos son buenos o malos Investigación científica de la cetosis Comer proteínas: buenas o malas Historias exitosas de la dieta cetogénica Razones por las que no está perdiendo peso con la dieta cetogénica Beneficios de la dieta cetogénica ¡Mucho, mucho, más! Esta es su primera parada para el más probada, confiada y precisa información sobre la cetosis. Dele click al botón "Comprar" para añadir este libro a su estante.

Comprendiendome, Comprendiendote: Una investigacion sobre ser humano

Tal como cuando vemos a un ave volar a través del cielo, así podemos observar nuestros sentimientos, simple y claramente. ¿Cómo podemos vivir en relaciones libres de conflicto? ¿Sentimos intranquilidad y anhelamos la paz interior? ¿Cómo podemos encontrar amor en nuestras vidas y ser felices? ¿Es posible no ser heridos emocionalmente? La respuesta a esta y a otras preguntas pueden ser encontradas a través de una comprensión más profunda de cómo funcionan nuestras mentes, al observar nuestros pensamientos y sentimientos cuando surgen en nosotros, y luego así, explorar lo que se encuentra detrás de ellos. Hemos sido educados para comprender el mundo que nos rodea, pero no a nosotros mismos, lo cual es responsable de muchos de nuestros problemas. Este libro te permitirá comprenderte claramente, y con la claridad de este entendimiento, los problemas pueden ser disueltos. Comprendernos a nosotros mismos nos ayuda a empatizar y conectarnos con otros porque, a pesar de nuestras aparentes diferencias, y aunque oculto a nuestra percepción, la mente humana funciona de la misma manera en todos. Darnos cuenta de esto puede transformar nuestras relaciones y conducirnos a la resiliencia, sabiduría y a una sensación de paz interior.

Comprehensive Women’s Mental Health

This is a comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of women's mental health. It starts by considering the social and cultural contexts of women's lives today before addressing how developmental aspects pertain to mental health, exploring biological, evolutionary and psychosocial parameters. The heart of the book contains a series of chapters with a clinical emphasis. These aim to elucidate causal mechanisms for gender differences in mental disorder considering hormonal and environmental influences. The therapeutic implications of gender are then addressed in some detail, with a focus on inter-partner and other forms of violence, substance misuse, personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. The book concludes with a detailed section considering psychosis and its sequelae in women and their families. The book's scope is intended to be broad, and it is aimed at a clinical audience including psychiatrists and general physicians, as well as mental health nurses, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists.

Comprehensive Wellness

Comprehensive Wellness, a Pearson Learning Solutions textbook.

Comprehensive Stress Management

Greenberg's Comprehensive Stress Management integrates research and theories found useful when dealing with the inevitable occurrence of stress, with an emphasis on the interrelation of stress and illness. <p><p>The 14th edition provides up-to-date information on stress associated with college student debts and technology use, as well as a new perspective on religion and spirituality as it relates to stress. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and applies key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessment. This technology empowers students to learn what stress is, evaluate their level of stress, and apply to their own lives the tools and skills necessary to manage stress

Comprehensive School Health Education

This book has been the leading teacher resource book used to prepare future and current elementary school, middle school, and secondary school teachers to teach health since the publication of the first edition in 1991. It also has been the most widely used teacher resource book selected by state departments of education, school districts, and departments of health for inservice and train-the-trainers programs. As you read about its con­tents, you will learn why teachers who purchase it find it the most teacher-friendly resource book available for health education.

Comprehensive School Health Education

Comprehensive School Health Education, provides everything needed to teach health in grades K-12. The authors continue to offer their dynamic and empowering approach to teaching health skills. This book includes lesson plans, online and app-based tools for assessment, and Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies masters - a curriculum tool aligned with National Health Education Standards and CDC guidelines for health education. This edition also introduces the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model from the CDC and ASCD

The Comprehensive Repertory for the New Homeopathic Remedies: A Guide to Strategic Prescribing

After nearly a quarter of a century's proof and research into new homoeopathic medicines, the dozens of new remedies that have been developed by the meditation circle of Janice Micallef RSHom are now presented as a desktop reference guide for any homoeopath with an interest in expanding the horizons of their art. Colin Griffith, a member of the homeopathic 'proving circle' since its earliest days, has laid out the book in a user-friendly manner to facilitate an easy search for the most appropriate remedy for both familiar and unfamiliar rubrics of symptoms. The accompanying lists of comparable 'old' remedies ensure that practitioners will not be tempted to view the new remedies as exclusively remedial in cases that may seem to call for something unusual. There are explanatory essays on how to use the repertory, on the association of remedies with the seven chakras and the seven major miasms, and a glossary of remedy names in both English and Latin to conform to universal usage. Each new remedy is also given a characteristic essential 'thumb nail' sketch to act as an additional guide.From the Hardcover edition.

Comprehensive Nursing Care (Revised 2nd Edition)

Comprehensive Nursing Care is an all-in-one learning resource which thoroughly addresses LPN/LVN practice, roles, and collaborative relationships. It covers the six core LPN/LVN curriculum areas: Fundamentals; Medical-Surgical/Adult Health; Maternal-Newborn; Pediatrics; Mental Health; and Leadership. Throughout, critical thinking situations and real-life client scenarios enable students to demonstrate knowledge, develop higher-level skills, and work well with RNs. Professionalism, a crucial focus of modern LPN/LVN education, is addressed throughout. Fully aligned with the NCLEX-PN Test Plan, this revised edition contains updated coverage of healthcare delivery systems, cultural issues, safety, pandemics, electronic charting, psychosocial issues,Healthy People 2020, health promotion for older adults, continuous quality improvement, and much more.

The Comprehensive NCLEX-PN Review

The book is intended to accompany a live review presentation and then be used as an outline for continued review prior to taking the NCLEX. Each unit focuses on a specific area of nursing care. Tables and graphics are provided throughout to simplify more challenging content. <p><p>Unit 1 offers practical information about the exam, including how to prepare and test-taking strategies. The next eight units review essential content for the exam: Coordinated Care, Community Health Nursing , Pharmacology in Nursing, Fundamentals for Nursing , Adult Medical Surgical Nursing , Mental Health Nursing, Maternal and Newborn Nursing, Nursing Care of Children. <p><p>The content provided in this book is organized by specific areas of nursing and focuses on descriptions, contributing factors, manifestations, and collaborative care, which includes nursing interventions, diagnostics, medications, therapeutic measures, client education, and referrals. The information is presented in a manner that promotes analysis and application of knowledge and reinforces the priority of care when managing client care. <p><p>In the Practice Questions section, additional NCLEX-style questions are provided. Remember to apply clinical reasoning and use your test-taking strategies to select the correct answers.

Comprehensive Medical Terminology (4th Edition)

Comprehensive Medical Terminology, 4E is an easy-to-use introduction to medical terminology that will unlock a world of knowledge for readers. This comprehensive book is organized by body system and specialty areas of practice and emphasizes anatomy and physiology, pathological conditions and diagnostic techniques and procedures. The study of word parts, which is the foundation of medical terminology, is integrated into every chapter to enhance comprehension. Comprehensive Medical Terminology, 4E contains simple-to-complex definitions that will strengthen readers' ability to read and interpret medical terms in reports and charts. The accompanying interactive StudyWARE " CD-ROM engages learners with quizzes, 3-D animations, video clips and a variety of games to build knowledge.

Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review

Comprehensive Lactation Consultant Exam Review, Fifth Edition is an ideal resource to help prepare for the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE) certification examination. Completely revised and updated, the Fifth Edition is mapped to the 2016 and 2023 Detailed Content Outlines and contains more than 1100 practice exam questions and answer rationales, more than 350 clinical photos, and 20 case studies with questions. Organized around the mother-baby dyad's development, it poses questions unique to key topics, including nutrition, pathology, psychology, clinical skills, and more. This review guide is perfect for beginning lactation consultants and those re-certifying, as well as dietitians, childbirth educators, nurses, and breastfeeding counselors.

Comprehensive Health Skills

Comprehensive Health Skills provides the skills and information students need to make responsible decisions and promote a lifetime of health and wellness. This third edition features cutting-edge, contemporary health topics such as vaping, opioid addiction, social media, mindfulness and mental health, and online communication and relationships.

Comprehensive Health

Comprehensive Health offers a complete solution for high school health classes. All health education information, including pregnancy prevention and sexuality topics, is presented in the text, with no supplements needed. In this up-to-date, skills-based text, health and wellness topics are presented as a dynamic discussion, relevant to students' lives. In addition to the standard topics, the text contains in-depth coverage of sleep, body image, and health across the lifespan. Content and skills are aligned to the National Health Education Standards and the National Sexuality Education Standards.

Comprehensive Health

Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer

Leading palliative care experts illustrate how you can improve both communication with cancer patients and their quality of life.For more than twenty years, this guide has been the go-to resource for busy practicing oncology and palliative care clinicians. This fourth edition, now titled Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, provides physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and patients and their families with detailed information and advice for alleviating the suffering of cancer patients and their loved ones. Drawing on the work of experts who have developed revolutionary approaches to symptom management and palliative care, as well as on lessons learned during her decades as a teacher and clinician, Dr. Janet L. Abrahm and her coauthors illustrate how to help patients and families understand their prognosis, communicate their care preferences, and minimize their distress.This edition reflects important updates in the field while addressing the informational needs of a broader market of health care providers, including social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, bereavement counselors, and chaplains. This new edition features three new chapters—"Spiritual Care in Palliative Care," "Psychological Considerations," and "Bereavement"—as well as specific guidelines about • advance care planning at all phases of cancer• understanding complex family dynamics and communication challenges• partnering with interpreters in the care of patients and family members with limited English-language proficiency• special considerations to take into account for LGBTQ+ patients and their loved ones• caring for patients who have a serious mental illness along with a cancer diagnosis• nonpharmacologic management of pain and other symptoms associated with cancer or its treatmentThe book features self-reflective exercises that encourage readers to consider their own biases before having discussions with patients and family members, as well as numerous patient stories that illustrate the techniques and insights clinicians can use to provide holistic, multidimensional care for a diverse cancer patient population.

Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS: Community-Based Strategies (Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare #12)

A comprehensive health care system consists of services that are coordinated and integrated along the full continuum of care. For HIV patients, this includes physical health care, infectious disease management, crisis care, mental health care, substance abuse counseling, and social support services including housing, transportation, subsistence, and supports for dealing with multiple sources of stigma. This book highlights the dilemmas faced in providing comprehensive, integrated care to individuals living with HIV, providing both an understanding of existing efforts to integrate diverse systems of care, as well as insight into ways in which systems of care must be challenged in order to meet the needs of people living with HIV. Comprehensive Care for HIV/AIDS is the result of collaborative work with the county Health Department, numerous community-based organizations, and several planning boards in a metropolitan area, which have sought to provide integrated care to people living with HIV. It will be a valuable resource to the diverse community of HIV researchers, advocates and providers.

Comprehensive Care for Complex Patients: The Medical-psychiatric Coordinating Physician Model

'Complex patients' are a sizeable population who generally require disproportionate attention for their management and respond poorly to treatment. Their systemic medical, psychiatric and personal needs have a tendency to drain or exceed the capabilities of those who treat them whilst overutilizing health care resources. As this patient population grows, we move ever closer to a crisis in health care delivery. This volume presents an innovative team-based approach for assessing and managing diagnostically complex and management intensive patients. The physician-led 'Medical-Psychiatric Coordinating Physician (MPCP)' model not only improves patient treatment, but also provides for the containment of costs by reducing redundancy and curbing excess in the use of services. Other benefits include improved diagnostic accuracy and decision making, as well as better communication among physicians and allied health professionals. This book is essential reading for psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and physicians, directors and administrators working in multidisciplinary specialty clinics.

Comprehensive Cancer Care for Children and Their Families: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the American Cancer Society

Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substantial continuing challenges. While survival rates for some pediatric cancers present a story of success, for many types of pediatric cancers, little progress has been made. Many cancer treatments are known to cause not only significant acute side effects, but also lead to numerous long-term health risks and reduced quality of life. Even in cases where the cancer is considered curable, the consequences of treatment present substantial long-term health and psychosocial concerns for children, their families, their communities, and our health system. To examine specific opportunities and suggestions for driving optimal care delivery supporting survival with high quality of life, the National Cancer Policy Forum of the Institute of Medicine and the American Cancer Society co-hosted a workshop which convened experts and members of the public on March 9 and 10, 2015. At this workshop, clinicians and researchers in pediatric oncology, palliative, and psychosocial care, along with representatives from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, Children's Oncology Group, pharmaceutical companies, and patient advocacy organizations, discussed and developed a menu of options for action to improve research, quality of care, and outcomes for pediatric cancer patients and their families. In addition, parents of children with cancer and pediatric cancer survivors shared their experiences with care and provided poignant personal perspectives on specific quality of life concerns and support needs for children and families across the life spectrum. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.